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I just watched HomeboundMovie on Netflix – and it hit hard.

Chandan and Shuhaib are not just characters. They are the thousands I’ve met, walked with, and listened to across cities, villages, and industrial belts. Many of them are my friends. In the last ten days alone, I met dozens more in eastern India – living the same reality the film lays bare.

Before COVID, I wrote about Indian migrant workers heading to the Gulf. But it was only during the pandemic and after that I truly entered their world: their villages, their suffocating dormitories, their brutal workplaces. That’s when I understood the scale – nearly 490 million internal migrant workers in India, mostly Dalit, Adivasi, and OBC, trapped in a system of caste-coded labour and systemic exploitation.

You only see the truth when you stand in their villages with no jobs,
when you walk into factories where safety is a joke and wages are a shame,
when you sleep in the rooms where 20 men share one fan and one toilet.

That’s when you understand why ₹10 still decides whether a child eats that night.

Homebound will disturb many. Good. It should.

But for those who already know that the new Labour Codes are a calculated assault on workers’ rights – stripping protections, extending hours, crushing unions, and legalising exploitation – this film is a mirror.

In Chandan and Shuhaib, you will see the faces of the 490 million.
You will see caste determining destiny.
You will see unemployment engineered by policy.
You will see a nation that runs on their sweat but refuses them dignity.

Watch it. Feel the rage.
Because silence in the face of this injustice is complicity.

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